A 16-year-old Batavia girl said she's afraid to go to school after being beaten unconscious on Valentine's Day.

"(Another student) grabbed me by the hair and bounced my head on the wall," Rhandi Morrison said.

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"This other girl grabs Rhandi's hair in one hand and punches her in the face with the other hand," said Jennifer Parsons, a student who witnessed the fight.

The concussion left her still in pain Tuesday, a week after the fight.

"When I passed out, she got on top of me, and continued to hit my head on the floor and on the lockers because my head was propped up by then. I woke up and saw people laughing me," Morrison said.

But Morrison said the worst part about being bullied at Clermont Northeastern's locker room was the humiliation.

"It made my life really bad, and it's hard to go to school because people are making fun of me now," Morrison said.

Morrison's mother, Delena Ellis, said the incident wasn't handled properly by the school.

"It is a case of bullying. The girl put her hands on my daughter. She caused physical harm to my daughter, and there were multiple girls in that locker room who did absolutely nothing to help," Ellis said.

Ellis said neither police nor paramedics were called, and she's only been told that the school's looking into it.

"I contacted the principal, assistant principal, superintendent and the president of the school board," Ellis said.

The other girl was suspended for three days, and now, Ellis said the two girls are expected to share classrooms again.

"Rhandi was laughed at, she was made fun of and she was asked, 'How does that black eye feel?'" Ellis said.

Ellis said she turned to administrators again, this time, with hospital papers confirming the bruises and concussion.

"You need to enforce your anti-bullying and say, 'Look we have this policy for a reason. We're not going to tolerate it. It's not funny, and we're going to do something about it,'" Ellis said.